Recent reviews by Kitbuqa

So good

Good game, many things they could change, not very good maps, core is full of annoying controller users (play HC to beat controllers) always get called a hacker because people cannot deal with the fact a level 700 is better than them.

This game is good for campaign i guess.

Now, let me introduce you to some of the ridiculous things they HAVE to sort out if multiplayer is going to be balanced.

-Cavalry has to be easier to dis engage from another cav unit (at the moment you have to spam them at least 4 times to withdraw, and then most of them die trying to withdraw). at the moment it basically just means whoever has the better spearmen/inf spam around cav will kill the others cav, there is no enjoyable micro like there was in m2tw.

-Cavalry is too easy to kill when charging
some cav have armour by the way, and they just get destroyed straight up. no risky charges anymore for me.

-Shock cav has little/no use. shock cav charge once. if the enemy is foolish enough to leave a unit of melee inf/archers behind, then great, mow them down. cavalry- you charge them in the side, and they get caught up in a messy brawl and are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ impossible to disengage, so they just get destroyed. whats the point? there is almost none.

-Tagmata cav needs to be nerfed immediately, ERE are horrendously overpowered, huns are underpowered and various units such as thracian oathsworns and chosen units are overpowered when used well.

-Archers are terrible, they need to have a huge buff. shooting 20 units of germanic elite archers at one unit of roman armoured inf (hercules something) in testudo. used all ammo, thats going to be a lot of arrows, guess how many kills? NONE. yes historically archers wouldnt have done much damage but there are holes in sheild walls, not every single part of a man is armoured and there are gaps for eyes etc.

-They NEED to buff units like palantina. elite units absolutely wreck the units which are still decent infantry, but cannot match more elite units. like they dont put up a fight. they kill about 4 and rout. noble germanic swordsmen have decent stats, even when upgraded, they get absolutely shredded like a russian in ww2. it is a complete joke. you are forced to use the most elite infantry, once again, ERE will win on that front too.

-The units are too hard to click on in game, i am constantly missing units and its really annoying, the little squares are too small and you cannot drag an area to select all of the time, sometimes it doesnt work.

-One last thing is the game itself. In multiplayer battles there are a lot of glitches, with people getting booted from the lobby for no reason, the game slowing down when someone has a ♥♥♥♥ internet/computer, it goes to very slow speeds and makes a game unenjoyable. i dont think ive played a siege yet at a proper speed. my game has crashed quite a lot also.

This game has a fun multiplayer, don't get me wrong, but i just cannot see the replayability for it because it is not based on skill, more on army compositions and i fear ERE is going to be very overused.

Buy it for campaign and casual multiplayer, it excels there. serious MP players, go get m2tw, its the best total war there is, this game has nothing on M2TW.

This game is not for the feint hearted. It is a brutal reality shooter, and if you're used to playing cod, its quite the opposite. I used to play CoD on console and as soon as i switched to this i found that it is a lot more tactical. I used to be able to run freely and get high kill streaks with ease. This game, if you do not play tactically you pay the blood price simple as that.
If you like realistic shooters, This game is good for you. There is no mini map, no killcam and no crosshairs or aim assist. When you start, i quite possibly believed it has one of the steepest learning curves of a game, however once you understand the maps it becomes very fun and extremely challenging. It is good value for money.

The class system is alright, some people love having roles, however, you will always get fools playing as riflemen who are meant to be posted up somewhere useful slaying, but instead lie at the back of the map with a ridiculous 4x scope on an M16, but its all part of the game. It is possible to play agressively, however doing this requires smokes to be succesful. Myself, i enjoy using the UMP on security and the AK74u and AK74 as insurgents.

There is no level bias, people on the highest PVP tier rank will get the same amount of points to build a class as someone who litterally just started.

One word of warning: the servers are pretty terrible for the most part.

This game is great fun and i can see many more hours worth.

in a siege i watched about 25 crossbowmen fly 10feet up in the air and then fall off a wall.
10/10 would cannon again